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Couple in Car Badly Burned While Manufacturing Cannabis Concentrate

Firefighters examine car after it was fully engulfed. [Photo by Oliver Cory]

This is a press release from the Arcata Police Department. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:

On 11/01/16 at about 6:17 PM, officers responded to assist the Arcata Fire Protection District with the report of a vehicle fire in the 1300 block of F Street. Upon the officer’s arrival, they located a 1996 Chrysler coupe fully engulfed in flames. Two people suffering from burns were located on-scene. They were later identified as Emily Tice (22) of Arcata and Rolin Smith (27) of Akron, OH. Tice was found to be the registered owner of the vehicle. Tice and Smith were transported to the Mad River Hospital by ambulance for treatment of their injuries.

After the fire was extinguished, officers and fire department personnel were able to examine the vehicle in an attempt to locate the cause of the fire. Evidence was located in the vehicle that indicated the occupants of the vehicle were manufacturing concentrated cannabis. As part of the extraction process the subjects were using Butane in the confined space of the vehicle.

It was later learned that one of the vehicle occupants lit a cigarette within the vehicle, before the Butane gases had dissipated, which was the source of ignition for the fire.

The Arcata Police Department took a case for 11379.6(a) H&S: Manufacture of Controlled Substance and will be forwarding the case to the Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office requesting charges against both Tice and Smith.
Tice and Smith both received significant burns and were transferred to a San Francisco burn center for further treatment.

This is a good argument for forced sterilization. I’m all for forgiveness and people do grow up and learn, but if you are open blasting BHO in a closed car, there is zero hope you will get better. Trust me. I have ignorant relatives that are the same at 55 as they were at 18. This is pure ignorance. every step what they were doing is so bad. Open blast, now what? Smoke liquid BHO concentrate? What the frack was the plan? Sell it? So poison another ignorant mouth breather?

Damn seriously. First who open blasts anymore? Second go buy a set of bubble bags and start washing. I promise what you make from those bags will be better than anything open blasted and if you skilled you could do it in your car if you wanted to. Lol in all seriousness I hope there ok and I hope they learned there lesson about playing with explosive gasses.

I knew these people, this has been blown out of proportion. They were living in their car, had a seriously faulty charging system and alternator, a can of butane to take dabs not make them. Did they find any actual equipment for making the bho? Sounds like a sensation article…

Blown out of proportion? They were blown out of the car! Their bodies were burned out of proportion! What are we supposed to think? You can’t smoke dabs with a regular lighter? If they wanted cars that blow up, why not get old Corvairs or Pintos? See, it’s a tad sensational when people blow themselves up, whether you know them or not. You don’t follow the media?

As always, when the news media covers such events, it serves as a warning to others and if even one more life is saved from death or massive burns, it is worth it. Hope this helps.